After Christmas, my pantry looks like a train wreck. I have half used bags of this kind of chips and half used of that. When I went to make something sweet the other night for the kids (really, just for the kids), I didn't have enough chips of any kind to make cookies. Since I did have 1 bag of butterscotch chips, I was able to scrounge up a recipe for Butterscotch brownies. I altered the recipe a bit to fit what I had left in the pantry, plus I added a bit of oatmeal just because I was craving some. They were so soft and chewy. Considering they are already gone, I think I'll be making these again!
Butterscotch and Chocolate Brownie Bars
1/4 cup butter, softened
1 cup light brown sugar, packed
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg
1/2 cup oatmeal
1 tablespoon milk
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 cup chopped nuts, if desires
1 cup each Butterscotch and Chocolate chips
Melt butter in a saucepan over low heat. Remove from heat. Mix in brown sugar, vanilla and egg; stir well. Stir in remaining ingredients. Spread in greased and floured 8x8x2 inch pan. Bake butterscotch brownies at 350° for 20 to 25 minutes.
Cut butterscotch brownies while warm.
"Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning, and the first thing that I knew There was milk and toast and honey and a bowl of oranges, too. And the sun poured in like butterscotch and stuck to all my senses."
-Joni Mitchell
9 comments:
Your brownie bars sound yummy! Maybe I can get back to my diet next week, after I use up these butterscotch and chocolate chips.
Thanks Sweet! I was shooting for the diet thing too. As you can see, I haven't been very successful so far :)
These sound wonderful! I like the way you were so creative in altering the recipe to use up your leftovers. They actually have the same ingredients as our family's favorite oatmeal cookies. I almost always put in both butterscotch and chocolate chips (as well as pecans).
You were a good Mom, Mary Ann, to make these "just for the kids." I've done that many times myself, haha. :-)
Lol! Thank you Beth! I really do try to make things just for the kids. But the poor things know me too well and put up with sharing with me.
Great Joni Mitchell poem!
I'm craving oatmeal too and I keep trying to talk Kelly into baking some oatmeal cookies with walnuts and raisins. We MIGHT have some leftover butterscotch chips. (Kelly has become the family baker. I encourage that! lol)
Yummy. I am having trouble with the diet thing too...
Debi- thanks! I love Joni Mitchell. My husband thinks I'm weird.
You are lucky to have a baker in the family! I bet Kelly is a great one too. Could you send some of those Oatmeal cookies my way?
Anita- I'm glad I'm not the only one. You'd think, with all I ate during the holidays I could keep my mouth shut by now!
I was craving chocolate the other day and made a devil's food cake on Friday. It is Sunday and the thing is over half gone. It is haunting me from the kitchen. I try not to even go in there but I know it is going to win out. Your brownies look so good. I love butterscotch and chocolate together. Really I love anything that has chocolate! Have a good week.
Southernlady- Oh my gosh, I can't even make a chocolate cake or I'll eat at least half myself, not counting all the licks of the icing I take just passing through the kitchen. I feel your pain!
Hope you have a great week too!
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